Maintenance

The maintenance of the barbecue is as important as the foundation of your relationship, like the cement that holds everything together.

A barbecue party often begins with a sudden awakening: the weather’s fine, quick, let’s have a barbecue. There’s a bustle over the morning coffee, phone calls are made, invitations are sent out, let’s eat! Your partner is already busy trying to scour the grill—put away like the last time—with broad strokes of the metal brush in a bubble bath (a mix of soap and vinegar). Meanwhile you ponder.